How Squads Secured $15B in Assets on Solana with Stepan Simkin and Garrett Harper
The Rollup31 Okt 2025

How Squads Secured $15B in Assets on Solana with Stepan Simkin and Garrett Harper

Western Union launching a stablecoin on Solana marks a major shift in payments infrastructure.

In this episode of Stabled Up, we sit down with Stepan Simkin and Garrett Harper from Squads Protocol to discuss how they built the infrastructure for Western Union's Solana strategy, why vertically integrated infrastructure wins, and the path to $3.7 trillion in stablecoin market cap.


We discuss:

- How Western Union secured $15B in assets on Solana

- Western Union's Solana strategy & why they chose Squads

- Enterprise vs crypto-native stablecoin approaches

- Why vertically integrated infrastructure wins

- The path from $300B to $3.7T in stablecoins

- Altitude: On-chain business banking for enterprises

- Getting paid in USDC: The future of payroll


Timestamps

00:00 Intro

01:39 Stepan & Garrett's Background: Building Squads

03:13 Blockworks Transformation Story

04:15 Squads' Founder Journey

07:58 Western Union Goes to Solana: The Inside Story

10:40 The Squads Value Proposition for Enterprises

12:34 Relay Ad

13:35 Why Vertically Integrated Infrastructure Wins

15:53 Stable Chains vs Open Networks: The Trade-offs

17:27 Payment Stablecoins vs Loyalty Stablecoins

19:54 Balancing Security & Trust at Scale

21:02 Growing Stablecoin Supply: What's Driving It

22:54 Enterprise Chain Preferences Revealed

25:05 $15B Breakdown & Geography: Where the Money Is

26:24 Alvara Ad

26:49 Coinbase Partnership: What It Unlocks

32:48 Getting Paid in Stablecoins: The Payroll Future

33:17 Closing Thoughts


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